Kentucky failed at Alabama but turnaround opportunity is ahead | Sources Say

Kentucky Sports Radio Podcast Network

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Things did NOT go well for the Kentucky Wildcats in Tuscaloosa, getting blown out once again at Alabama in a game that was never really close — even at full strength with Jaland Lowe and Jayden Quaintance out there. What went wrong and how is it fixed with a winnable run of games coming up? What’s the deal with the weirdness from Mark Pope (plus the opposite from Nate Oats, who wasn’t shy about the subtle jabs after the fact)? Don’t forget about the revealing media opportunity featuring Mo Dioubate and Jaland Lowe going into the Missouri matchup this week… Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome in to the
0:07.8	go to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR podcast network presented by our delicious friends at parlor pizza.
0:15.4	Thank you to everything and everything that parlor pizza does for the good of this world.
0:20.5	I am your host,
0:21.2	Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio, very excited to be joined once again by not Sean Smith,
0:26.1	but Spencer Smith of Synergy Sports and absolute basketball savant in all of the greatest
0:32.3	ways. How are you, Spencer? Yeah, I'm all right, Jack. I've been better. I've been better coming
0:37.3	off the weekend and all that. We've got another opportunity tomorrow night. But besides that, I'm all right, Jack. I've been better. I've been better coming off the weekend and all
0:38.2	that. We've got another opportunity tomorrow night. But besides that, I'm good. Things in life are okay.
0:43.2	It's always just, you know, we can always just go to fantasy land and be like, oh, like real life is.
0:50.1	But unfortunately, this is like our jobs and my job, especially, to talk and dig in.
0:54.5	I can't just disconnect after just a pretty terrible showing down in Tuscaloosa.
0:59.6	It's like all my friends, like when the game ends, they can just be like, boop, turn it off and just like disconnect and go to their own worlds.
1:07.4	And I'm like, nope, I've got to still write and talk and just dig into this.
1:11.4	And it's sometimes very annoying. But hey, there are worse jobs in the world.
1:16.1	I'm never going to complain about watching basketball for a living.
1:19.4	It's a very blessed life.
1:20.7	But it doesn't make it easy when the product is what it is that we saw down in Tuscaloosa, Spencer.
1:25.8	In 89 to 74 defeat, I was very optimistic going into the game.
1:32.3	I was very wrong.
1:33.3	I texted you leading up to the game like, man, I just have that feeling.
1:38.3	Something is telling me that all of the things that we have been hoping and dreaming and praying about this team,
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